Saturday, October 12, 2013

The ideology of zombification, from Ancient to Soviet to modern times

Last Update: 9:35 PM 10/15/2013

It is the ideology, mentality, mindsets, culture, history, personal attitudes, the style of international relations, the modes of the domestic oppression in a police state - of slavery. It is as old as the world itself, and it is as renewed and threatening to our life styles, "ways of life", modes of existence, thinking and "philosophy" (both as the general real life attitudes and as a scientific inquiries) as various manifestations of zombification and slavery that we see today. The recent mysterious events, addressed in my previous posts do evoke thinking about this subject. This is an example of zombification and slave mentality: "All the world knows ameriKans are zombies and stupid robots. The US of AmeriKa is a state of devil ,false and shit! Wait a little,you will be destroyed soon!!!"And the problem is that this is not just one individual sick response; this is the pervasive mentality, which wormed its way into the thinking, concepts, emotions and operational styles of various societies and cultures, including their political and intelligence services structures. It is based on ignorance and irrational hatred. It is one of the root causes of anti-Americanism, regardless of its geography and political coloring, from Russia to Arab and Muslim worlds to some countries in Latin America. We do have to understand and to address these root causes in depth and to develop the comprehensive program and set of measures to counteract and to eradicate it. Pax Americana is the Liberty for the whole World, everywhere and in all her forms, contents and manifestations. If Russia (and other countries with similar social and political mentalities) want to survive and prosper as states, economies and cultures, they have to understand and to address these problems and issues also.Humans always had the impulse and the sick need to control, enslave and exploit each other; this is the crude, devilish, animalistic part of our nature, which can be viewed in an evolutionary perspective as a psycho-social device directed to enhance self-survival: as individuals, species, families, groups and ethnic and state entities. If you make zombies out of others - enslave others, then there are fewer chances that they will zombify and enslave you; that's how this slave mentality (and the mentality of the slaves!; regardless of their social status and positions) goes. We have to analyze and to understand the roots of this phenomenon: psychological, social, historical and cultural.

References

The Haitian explanation for how zombies are created involves the distinction between different elements of the human being – including the body, the gwobon anj (the animating principle) and the ti-bon anj, which represents something akin to agency, awareness, and memory.

In line with these beliefs is the fact that awareness and agency can be split off from the human being – and can be captured and stored in a bottle by abòkò, a type of magician and spirit worker who can be paid to send curses or help individuals achieve their aims.

This purportedly leaves a passive easily-controlled animated body – the zombie – believed to be created to provide free labour on plantations.

Anthropologist Wade Davis claimed to have identified the ingredients of thebòkò’s zombification powder which supposedly included tetrodotoxin – a naturally occurring neurotoxin found in some animals, like the pufferfish, which can cause temporary coma-like states.

I won’t say much more about the ‘neurotoxin’ theory of zombification, not least because it was brilliantly covered by science writer Mo Costandi and I couldn’t improve on his fantastic article which will tell you everything you need to know.

But on the cultural level, zombies are identified by specific characteristics – they cannot lift up their heads, have a nasal intonation, a fixed staring expression, they carry repeated purposeless actions and have limited and repetitive speech.

One of Grimm’s Fairy Tales is called “The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership”. A cat convinces a mouse that she wants to be her friend, and they live together and in anticipation of the oncoming winter they buy a pot of fat and hide it in a church. On the pretext of attending one baptism after another the cat goes again and again to the church and eats all the fat a little at a time, and after each occasion amuses herself by responding to the mouse’s questions with ambiguous answers. When they finally go together to the church to eat the pot of fat, the mouse discovers the trick, and the cat simply eats the mouse. The last sentence of the fable proclaims the moral: “Verily, that is the way of the world”.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher, and a major figure in German Idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality revolutionized European philosophy and was an important precursor to Continental philosophy and Marxism. Wikipedia

Duke Ellington on a European tour, 1963. His work has a near-pictorial quality.

The latest musical to hit Broadway is also the oldest musical in town. "After Midnight," the Duke Ellington revue that debuts this month, is a homage to the spectacular stage shows at the Cotton Club, the swanky Jazz Age nightspot whose shady owners billed it as "The Aristocrat of Harlem." Some of the Ellington-penned numbers in "After Midnight," like "Black and Tan Fantasy" and "Creole Love Call," are now close to nine decades old—yet they're as arrestingly fresh and original-sounding today as they were in the Roaring Twenties.

Duke Ellington - YouTubeMike Nova comments: Duke Ellington's improvisational style in jazz is the same like free associations in thinking process: the free and unimpeded expression of live spirit. It is the non-verbal emotional psychoanalytic-psychotherapeutic curative session. That what I say. By the way, Freud did not like and was not able to appreciate music, any kind of music. His was the non-musical mind and soul. His thoughts and concepts, pseudoscientific but artistic, were his self-absorbing music for him. To remind ourselves again, he got the Goethe Prize for Literature (which is verbal music), not the Nobel Prize for Medicine, to which he aspired and which he desired so much: he was vain, too. (Too many "which-es; rhymes with witches.) Free associations is basically free thinking, just like jazz is free and unrestrained musical harmony. Enough said, just enjoy it (if you can).

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Reviews

The statistical effects of the October 28 Letter | Federal Bureau of Investigation - NYT

"Many good questions could and should al-zo be asked when Mr. Comey testifies in the closed session of the House Intelligence Committee next week... Comey's overall "motivations" might be complex and and at the same time simple: the security of the country. The details of these complexities are not easy to read..." - by Michael Novakhov - 4.25.17

Gangs, Intelligence Services, and Politics

M.N.: It would be unforgivably naive to suppose that the U.S. criminal Underworld is not controlled these days by the Russian Mafia, and, in turn, by the Russian Intelligence Services. It would also be unforgivably naive to suppose that there are no messages contained in the various criminal acts, and that there are no connections between the Underworld's recent operations and the present situation in the U.S., including the present investigations. As a matter of facts and the investigative leads, they might hold and provide the most easily accessible clues. Attention, the FBI and the significant others: do access these clues.

Smoke and Fire: The Trumputkins, the Trumpumpkins, "The Tillerson Ultimatum", and bad, bad Assad

By Michael Novakhov: So, the Trump - Putin mysterious marriage is on the rocks... The unresolved issues, whatever, whoever, and however triggers the attention to them and their discussions, have to be resolved: soundly, timely, fundamentally, and the long-term; otherwise they come back and accumulate, and together with the other unresolved issues, snowball and cause the avalanches. Nobody needs this mess, enough snow jobs everywhere... That's what Mishustin thinks...

"If you really want to fight ISIS, look into its origins and essence first." - Fight Against "ISIS"

In the opinion of the great many observers, those "sham" groups are nothing more than the creations and proxies of the Russian Military Intelligence (GRU), formed on the basis of the coalitions of the disaffected ex- Baathist Saddam's military (and first of all, military intelligence officers, historically tied with the GRU), with the "rebels-for-hire", and the Assad's Syrian Intelligence Services, which are also the proxies of the GRU.

"Trumpism" as the "social-political experiment" and the "Gang of Four"

The engineered election of Donald Trump as the U.S. President is the joint operation of the German, Russian, and Israeli Intelligence Services with the major executive and operational role played by the Russian-Jewish Mafia at the head of the International Organized Crime - by Michael Novakhov

Tillerson's Complaint:

"Lavrov won't dance with me..."

Lavrov's Response:

"My mama done tol' me... A man's a two-face..."

Vovchick "The Tarantula", why were you so "loud"?!

For Russia (or any other state), this extraordinary, unusual, demonstrative, primitive, blatant "loudness" was like digging her own grave with regard to the US - Russian relations, especially at the time when their improvement and the relief of sanctions is so desired by them, and no doubts, they would understand this very well. This peculiarity in this affair points to the possible deliberate set-up from the third party... The US - Russia - Germany triangle and the role of the revived German intelligence in it after the WW2 have to be examined under the most powerful microscope, in all their hidden details, and in the historical perspective.

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The America of my dreams: Shattered. Raped.

The King Trump - by Michael Novakhov

The public prayers for His Majesty's health, wealth, and well-being, and also for the development of his additional intellectual capacities should be held no less than three times a day in all public squares, government offices, courthouses, and the places of worship, and also in all the private and public toilets, with the benefit of generating the taxable and multiple extra-flushes. Hopefully, it will flush out in due time.

The Information Age

All the relevant information at your fingertips: Information is not a commodity for sale but one of the most vital and important inalienable rights. To paraphrase Descartes: "I have access to information therefore I am". ("Information Age" - post of 11.30-21.13 | Image from: Information - Google Images)